Plus Pack add-on: WHO NEEDS IT?

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Hi Forum Members,
I'm currently a True Image Home 2009 user looking for some guidance on the right upgrade path: 2010 -or- 2010 with Plus Pack.

I've read the info about the "new Plus Pack add-on" and now I'm slightly confused about what can or cannot restore with dissimilar hardware.

With True Image Home 2009 / 2010 (no Plus Pack)...
Is it possible to mount/access/restore just file-level data from my .tib backup archives using a "different" machine?

For example if my notebook were stolen, I would need to restore the backed-up files from "my documents" to a new system (different machine). Is this possible, or is the Plus Pack needed to perform this task?

NOTE: I'm only referring only to the actual data files, not the replication of the old OS and system settings to a new PC.

Thanks for any feedback or suggestions!

Cheers,

Organdude

Wed, 01/13/2010 - 11:56
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You would not need the PP since, once you have True Image installed on the new PC and the .tib file available, say on an external drive, you can use Windows Explorer to explore the .tib and get your data files.

BUT, why use True Image to backup your data files - this puts them in a proprietary "container" which only TI can extract. Use the free Microsoft's Sync Toy or the free Karen's Replicator. After the initial backup with either one, future backups will backup only changed or new files.

Wed, 01/13/2010 - 14:08
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Hi DwnNDrty,

That makes sense, thanks for the reply!

Hey, could you also access the .tib archives in windows explorer (and of course extract the files) from a "different machine" even when True Image is NOT installed? For instance while running the program from the recovery environment from the bootable media?

Thanks,

Organdude

Wed, 01/13/2010 - 14:45
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DwnNDrty wrote:
BUT, why use True Image to backup your data files - this puts them in a proprietary "container" which only TI can extract. Use the free Microsoft's Sync Toy or the free Karen's Replicator. After the initial backup with either one, future backups will backup only changed or new files.

The one thing I don't like about SyncToy is that it doesn't do file versioning. If you mistakenly change a file and SyncToy does the backup, you can't revert to the previous version. It's lost.

Wed, 01/13/2010 - 16:46
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Organdude wrote:
Hi DwnNDrty,

That makes sense, thanks for the reply!

Hey, could you also access the .tib archives in windows explorer (and of course extract the files) from a "different machine" even when True Image is NOT installed? For instance while running the program from the recovery environment from the bootable media?

Thanks,

Organdude

No, TI has to be installed to get the feature for exploring the .tib with Windows Explorer.

Wed, 01/13/2010 - 17:53
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Hey Marc and DwnNDrty,

Thanks for the tips on Sync Toy and Karen's Replicator. I’ve done some quick comparisons and have decided that Replicator “rocks” and Sync Toy “kinda sucks”. (Is MS really in the business of developing truly great programs - and then giving them away for free?) ;-D

I tested the two utilities ability to pickup file modifications with music files where I only edited the ID3 tags. Karen’s picked-up the modifications and thereby Replicated the newer files to the destination folder, Sync Toy did not!

I think that Sync Toy is well intended, but hey, once you get past Replicator’s somewhat Spartan user interface I found it to be a more versatile and better executed utility.

Cheers and thanks to both of you for your feedback, it looks like a straight-ahead Acronis upgrade, without the Plus Pack, is the way to go for me.

Organdude

Wed, 01/13/2010 - 22:46